Ages 18+

Wednesdays, 6:30 – 7:45 p.m.

Want to learn how to write a poem or a collection of poetry from your life experience? In this workshop, you’ll learn:

• About narrative, rhymes, personification styles of poems
• Line stanzas, being a radar to a potential poem, the poetic verse
• How to publish a collection of your poems and more…

This workshop will help select memorable events in your life and create a poem. First, you choose experiences you want to share and write them down as regular prose writing.  Then you convert your prose story into a poem. But here’s the FUN! All final poems from the participants will be published in a small anthology book of poems for you to share with family and friends.

• Session: 5 weeks (April 7 – May 5, 2021)
• Cost: $60 for 5-week session
• Class Size: 5 – 12 students
• Health & Safety Measures: All CCAC Staff, Teachers, and Participants must follow CCAC’s Covid-19 Preparedness Measures and Requirements for Participation when attending class in-person.
• How to Register: Email instructor at alasinc771@hotmail.com with “From Prose to Poems” in the subject line. Class sessions are held In Person. COVID-19 state regulations required. Class registration will be confirmed via email, with tuition due before the first day of class.

About the Instructor: Victor Vélez

Publishing credentials: “A Quest for Answers, Xlibris, 2003, “Conga Blues” Xlibris, 2008, Salsa on the Square: A Summer of Photos” Breman Press, 2010, “Images” 30 Years of Photography, Blurb, 2013, “Donde Estas, Señor” Blurb, 2014, “Divine Reflections” Blurb, 2016, “Forecast” Blurb, 2017, “Salsa in the ‘Nati,” 2018.